Adobe Labs launches Project Indigo, a free computational photography app for iPhones that captures a burst of images and combines them into a high-quality photo
Marc Levoy, a former distinguished engineer at Google who helped put the Pixel camera on the map, helped build the app at Adobe.
A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral
Apple will need to make the biggest acquisition in its history to put an end to its artificial intelligence debacle.
Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has signed legislation requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles …
Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.
A look at the US Army Reserve's Detachment 201, which lets tech executives, like Meta's Bosworth, give advice as senior officers while keeping their day jobs
Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces “leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’ Bluesky: @hypervisible , @tonytassell , and @nataliegreenp...
Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B
Haveli Investments will acquire Couchbase (BASE.O) for about $1.5 billion, the companies said on Friday, as the private equity firm looks to capitalize …
Experts say China's new national internet ID, currently voluntary, to sign in across social media apps and sites could further erode already limited freedoms
Hong Kong CNN — China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world's most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Forums...
A look at Temu, Shein, Meituan, and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil, as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe
Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names …
Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals
Well, this little item in Axios' email thingie yesterday kept … Owotunse Adebayo / Cryptopolitan : Anthropic releases new safety report on AI models Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Blackmail becomes ...
Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing
Despite the president's domestic manufacturing push—and the Trump Organization's launch of an ostensibly U.S.-made phone—the challenges remain massive
A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research
Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on how AI is affecting the jobs market, AI agents, dealing with fake AI-generated accounts, and more
LinkedIn's CEO offers his thoughts on how AI is changing the way people work, himself included. But first... Standing out in an AI world
Hackers briefly exploited a front-end vulnerability in CoinMarketCap's rotating doodles feature to inject fake “Verify Wallet” phishing pop-ups
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk :
Sources: the WH rejected DOD's proposal for the head of NSA and US Cyber Command, extending the agencies' leadership vacuum; Trump fired NSA's head in April
That NSA/Cybercom commander + deputy were fired by POTUS because kooks told him to — That SECDEF and DNI thought a guy they met at a SOF party was a great replacement — That the WH said no to that i...
Onebrief, which makes military workflow software, raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, taking the round total to $70M
We're thrilled to announce our latest funding round - a $20M Series C extension that raises our valuation to $1.1 billion …
London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts such as engine and drone components, raised $135M, a source says at just under a $1B valuation
London-based group raises $135mn amid surge of interest in defence sector — London-based artificial intelligence start …
Fidelity: ~50% of UK investors trust social media, finfluencers, and AI tools for financial decisions; only ~33% used a qualified adviser in the past two years
Growing draw of social media influencers and platforms comes at expense of regulated advice — Nearly half of UK investors put …
Uncountable, which makes AI tools to let R&D teams accelerate development cycles, raised a $27M Series A led by Sageview, bringing its total funding to $32.5M
Chris Metinko / Axios : LinkedIn: Zeeshan Mahmood , Sophie Kiedaisch , Robin Marcenac , Joseph Mann , and Noel Hollingsworth LinkedIn: Zeeshan Mahmood : Exciting times at Uncountable Inc. Honoured to...
A look at “Generative Engine Optimization” startups like Profound and Bluefish AI, which help businesses improve content to appear in AI search summaries
This seems geared towards brands that want the summary of the company or products to be as positive as possible instead of web publishers Greg Linden / @glinden : AI results are about to get a lot wor...
Docs: the FCC is probing USCTM, launched by the Biden administration as a voluntary safety label for IoT devices, over its administrators' alleged ties to China
Brian Flood / Fox News :
Experts say China-linked groups have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in search of military secrets since the war in Ukraine began
So many US policymakers, in both parties, kept saying, “Russia and China are allied! Oh no!” — They were either morons or liars. — Take your pick. — #uspol #cdnpoli #ukpol #auspol — www.nytim...
Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many
Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg : X: @business X: @business : Nearly one in four Indians said in a survey they use only mobile phones to consume entertainment and media content, ditching television, in a ...
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